Surprising oil leak on 850 T5 Topic is solved

mailee · Post by **mailee** » 13 Mar 2005, 07:45

I had an oil leak since buying my T5 second hand a few months ago and assumed as did everyone else that it was from the turbo oil return line. After cleaning all the gunk from under the car I found to my surprise that I had a hole in the sump! It appears that it had been chafed into the offside rear corner of the sump by a plastic pipe! I have no idea what the pipe is but it runs from the rear of the car around the subframe and into a cannister under the front nearside wing. It had become unclipped from the subframe where it passes the sump corner and rubbed a neat ridge and hole in the sump! I managed to glue up the hole with some epoxy liquid metal and hope this solves the problem, I have my fingers crosssed. Just thought this was worth a mention as I had not heard of this one before and maybe it may bo of help to some of the other members of this site.

White850Turbo · Post by **White850Turbo** » 13 Mar 2005, 07:52

That hose you mentioned is an evap canister hose. It's an emissions control device. I've never heard of it doing that before though.

mailee · Post by **mailee** » 13 Mar 2005, 09:31

Yep, White 850 turbo, you are dead right, I just looked it up in the manual and it is the evaporator line. I have to admit I thought it was an unusual thing when I saw it and thought at first it was oil leaking from the pipe (Not knowing what it was) I was really amazed that a plastic pipe would cut through the alloy of the sump too!.